All India Handicrafts Board

All India Handicrafts Board
AbbreviationAIHB
Formation1952
FoundersMinistry of Commerce and Industry, India
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
Pupul Jayakar
Dissolved2020
Location
  • New Delhi, India

The All India Handicrafts Board (AIHB), was an organisation in India established in 1952, which aimed to advise the Ministry of Textiles on development programmes for handicrafts. Its early key figures included Pupul Jayakar, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Lakshmi Chand Jain and Fori Nehru. It was abolished by the Government of India in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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